Palo Alto Police Department

The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office walked back a recent public statement this week that it would not file criminal charges against a Palo Alto police officer accused of excessive force.

The Santa Clara County D-A’s office is now walking back a public statement made last week, saying they would not be charging a Palo Alto police officer accused of excessive force.

Months before the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis ignited outrage and protests across the country, the FBI’s Civil Rights division began quietly investigating a 2018 incident in Palo Alto that led to claims of brutality, bias, and a potential cover-up against the city’s police department.

Julio Arevalo said he just wanted to get his son a donut when he left his home at the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park late one night last July. He never came home with that donut. In the morning, Arevalo says he woke up handcuffed to a hospital bed with a fractured bone in his face and a brace around…

One Palo Alto officer has been named in a third civil rights lawsuit, raising questions and increasing concerns about the department’s transparency and use of force. Stephen Stock reports.

The city of Palo Alto on Monday agreed to pay over a half-million dollars to a man who sued the city this year after he said Palo Alto police unlawfully detained and assaulted him outside his mobile home in 2018.

A settlement has been reached in a civil rights lawsuit in Palo Alto after a violent arrest in February 2018 involving a gay man who alleged officers used excessive force and mocked his homosexuality.

Police are investigating after two employees who recently left Tesla allegedly failed to return company laptops and were reported for theft, the Palo Alto Police Department said Friday.

Police in Palo Alto have taken a 14-year-old student into custody in connection with making threats to “shoot up” Henry M Gunn High School on Thursday. The student, who reportedly made threats online against the high school, was identified and safely taken into custody for a mental health evaluation, according to the Palo Alto Police Department.

An armed domestic violence suspect arrested by Palo Alto police Saturday after a standoff lasting 29 hours has been identified as 29-year-old Palo Alto resident Adam Allen Smith, police said.

Take a deeper look at the surveillance footage that captured Gustavo Alvarez’s arrest.

The Palo Alto Police Department is seeking the public’s help in identifying a man who allegedly sexually battered a woman running on the Los Altos-Palo Alto Bike Path behind Terman Park Wednesday morning.

The Palo Alto Police Department is seeking the public’s help in identifying a man who allegedly sexually battered a woman running on a bike path behind Terman Park Wednesday morning.

The Palo Alto Police Department is seeking the public’s help in identifying a couple of burglars who hit a Palo Alto home twice in the past month.

Palo Alto police are searching for a man who sexually assaulted and robbed a female pedestrian early Monday morning, according to the Palo Alto Police Department.

A 28-year-old man was arrested Saturday, suspected in a Thursday assault on a residential Palo Alto sidewalk that left a woman injured, Palo Alto police.

Police in Palo Alto are continuing to seek a suspect who knocked a man down to the ground Friday evening before robbing him.

Palo Alto police are searching for a man suspected of physically attacking and robing a man on a popular bike trail. Anoushah Rasta reports.

A 37-year-old Menlo Park man was arrested in connection with two suspicious fires that burned within 50 minutes of each other on Saturday, Palo Alto police said Sunday.

A 37-year-old Menlo Park man was arrested in connection with two suspicious fires that burned within 50 minutes of each other on Saturday, Palo Alto police said Sunday.